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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-poulet-et-la-perle.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 13</span><span class="fp-text">LES ABEILLES ET LES BOURDONS JUGÉS PAR LA GUÊPE</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula XIII</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">APES ET FUCI VESPA JUDICE</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Des abeilles avaient déposé leurs rayons sur le haut d'un chêne ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">de paresseux Bourdons les réclamaient comme étant à eux.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ce débat fut porté eu justice, par-devant la Guêpe pour juge ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et comme elle connaissait parfaitement chaque partie,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">elle leur proposa cet arrangement&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Vous vous ressemblez assez, leur dit-elle, de corps et de couleur,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">le doute en cette affaire est donc permis.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Mais, pour que ma religion ne soit point surprise dans ce jugement,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">travaillez, remplissez de miel vos alvéoles de cire</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">sa saveur et la forme des rayons</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">décideront qui a fait ceux-ci.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Les Bourdons refusent l'épreuve ; les Abeilles l'acceptent avec joie.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Alors la Guêpe prononça cette sentence&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;On voit assez l'incapacité des uns et le savoir-faire des autres ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">je restitue donc aux Abeilles le fruit de leur travail.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Apes in <span class="fp-correction" title="alia  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">alta</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="alta  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">alia</span></span> quercu fecerant favos ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">hos fuci inertes esse dicebant suos.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Lis ad forum deducta est vespa judice.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate"><span class="fp-correction" title="Que  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">Quae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="Quae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">Que</span></span> genus utrumque nosset cum pulcherrime,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">legem duabus hanc proposuit partibus&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Non inconveniens corpus et par est color,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">in dubium plane res ut merito venerit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Sed ne religio peccet inprudens mea,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">alvos accipite et ceris opus infundite,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ut ex sapore mellis et forma favi,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">de quibus nunc agitur, auctor horum appareat.&nbsp;»</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Fuci recusant, apibus condicio placet.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Tunc illa talem sustulit sententiam&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Apertum est quis non possit aut quis fecerit.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">quapropter <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n105/mode/1up">p.42</a>]</span> apibus fructum restituo suum.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">J'aurais passé cette fable sous silence,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">si les Bourdons n'avaient refusé de tenir la foi promise.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hanc praeterissem fabulam silentio,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">si pactam fuci non recusassent fidem.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/le-poulet-et-la-perle.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>
<div class="fp-la-fontaine">Lire la fable de La Fontaine&nbsp;: <a href="http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Les_Frelons_et_les_Mouches_%C3%A0_miel">Les Frelons et les Mouches à miel</a></div>
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